At the core of history: Iowa and the atomic bomb
The movie “Oppenheimer,” telling the story of Julius Robert Oppenheimer, the physicist who helped develop the process of controlled nuclear …
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The movie “Oppenheimer,” telling the story of Julius Robert Oppenheimer, the physicist who helped develop the process of controlled nuclear …
Uranium Derby is a feature-length documentary about a young woman's look into an experiment gone wrong-the American nuclear experiment. This film depicts the manner in which toxic nuclear waste, generated and collected in a few specific places, was allowed to spread to numerous sites around a small Midwestern university town and subsequently the country. The story, centered in Ames, Iowa, begins with a curious native filmmaker (Brittany Prater) casually looking into her hometown's highly secretive involvement in the Manhattan Project during the 1940s. The historical role of Ames in t...
Teresa Wilhelm Waldof's book “Wilhelm’s Way: The Inspiring Story of the Iowa Chemist Who Saved the Manhattan Project” is the subject of author talk.
Ames Laboratory director: The materials we study can and do make technological visions soar into reality.
Ames Laboratory director: The materials we study can and do make technological visions soar into reality.